Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/08

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: Digital resolution
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 19:42:57 -0700

At 05:17 PM 4/8/00 -0400, austin@darkroom.com wrote:
>The new crop of high end consumer digital cameras are 8 bits/pixel/color, or
24 bits per pixel.  The Fuji FinePix 4700 is 2400 x 1800 x 3 bytes/pixel,
so an
uncompressed image is almost 13M bytes!
>

The Fuji 4700 is interpolated resolution. It uses a 2.n (somewhere between 2.3
and 2.7) megapixel sensor. All of the rest of the implied resolution is
derived
from interpolation. Basically, manufactured data. Fuji is catching a L-O-T of
heat about deceiving the public.

Webster:

Main Entry: in·ter·po·late
Pronunciation: in-'t&r-p&-"lAt
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -lat·ed; -lat·ing
Date: 1612
transitive senses
1 a : to alter or corrupt (as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter.

Jim